Two letters (1944) from Mr A E Bancroft to Tambimuttu referring to submission of poems on behalf of his son, Ian Bancroft. With two subsequent letters to Tambimuttu from Capt Ian Bancroft (14 February and 17 October, 1945); two letters from Tambimuttu to Bancroft (26 October and 1 November, 19...
Letter (typescript, 28 February, 1944) to Tambimuttu, noting correction to attached poem ('Mostly About Violet'). Postcard (15 March, 1946) requesting copy of Poetry London, 2:10 (1944), in which the poem appeared (pp. 13-14).
Correspondence between Capt Beard and Tambimuttu (five brief letters) concerning submission of poems (rejected) and an article ('A Consideration of Verse'), the latter to be quoted 'in my editorial for the Services number of PL'.
Letter (typescript, dated 30 June only) enclosing seven poems (typescript, some dated): 'Elegy for a German Pilot'; 'Moon and Searchlights'; 'The Underground'; 'Christ's College Garden'; 'The Blackout'; 'Written in September, 1939'; and 'Good Friday 1941'.
Correspondence covering various topics, professional and personal: Tambimuttu's (unspecified) illness, recovery and new frame of mind, Berlin's commmision from Tambimuttu to write a book on artists in Cornwall, Berlin's dustjacket design, and other incidental matters. Berlin to Tambimuttu (20 Oc...